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Bach Chamber Choir

On January 6, 2008, they performed an Epiphany Concert featuring Bach—Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (Sleepers Awake!), featuring guest talent and other pieces of the same theme.


Messiah Part II

The third idea "and he shall reign for ever and ever" starts as a fugue on a theme with bold leaps, reminiscent in sequence of Philipp Nicolai's Lutheran chorale Wachet auf.

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

Herbert Blendinger also wrote an organ fantasia on the hymn, Op. 49.


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